Sales book



Nov. 2 .1926.

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SALES Boex 4 sheets-sheet 4 Filled April 21 EMIS Patented Nov. 2, 1926.

y UNITED STATES PATENTA OFFICE.

'.RODNEY J'. WOOD, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE NATIONAL CASH REGISTER COMPANY, OF DAYTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF MARYLAND.

SALES BOOK.

Application filed April 21, 1919. Serial No. 291,526.

This invention relates to improvements in a sales book which may be used as a day book in addition to its use as a sales book. One object of the invention is to retain in the hands of the merchant .i bound set of the numbered carbon copies of sales slips while at the same time issuing to the customer an original sales slip which is torn outof the sales book. responding sales slip to be retained by the merchant and filed in a cash register drawer or a credit fil-e as is well known in the art.

Another object of the invention is to pro vide upon the inside of an outside cover spaces to receive an itemized sales record,

in which entries are to be made at the time of each transaction and thus provideV the merchant with a classified statement of his business, showing the extent of the sales of the various commodities handled by him.

Still another object of ythe invention is to provide a permanent compact file the respective parts of which may be numbered consecutively and may be dated to indicate the portion containing that days business, and thus providing a ready reference means for business transactions upon any selected date without reference to the various accounts posted from that date.

Another object of this invention is to adapt the loose slips issued in connection with a charge transaction for use in a credit file of well known form to which reference is made later. Vhen so used the loose copy with proper entries thereon retained by the merchant is disposed of by placing the same in said credit file.

Still another object of this invention is to provide means for making an exact copy of the original entry and thus retain allr the characteristics of the slip handed to the customer upon the slip corresponding thereto and retained by the merchant in the Y slip form or in the bound form as distinguished above.

The character of a credit file to which the slips from the sales bookare adapted is completely set forth in Letters Patent of the United States of Rodney J. Wood, No. 1,313,150 issued Aug. 12, 1919. In connection with the use of the detachable slips from this sales book in the above mentioned credit file the same may be inserted in a slip printing cash register where they mayr There is also a cor-y receive an indication of the character Of the transaction, indication of the clerk conducting the transaction, the amount thereof. the number of the same, and the date of said transaction. It is of course apparent that these detachable slips are not restricted in any way to use with either a credit file or a cash register, for it is perfectly clear that they are useful adjuncts to a business where neither of said devices is in use.

The subject matter printed upon the slips shown in this application'relates to the business of a garage butthere is of course no limitation to be presumed on this account as the sales book is applicable in its use to many other kinds of business.

With the above and incidental objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts, the essential elements of which are set forth inthe appended claims and a preu ferred form of embodiment of which is `,hereinafter specifically described with reference to the drawings which accompany and form part of thev specification.

Of said drawings:

Fig. `1 represents the sales book with certain of the lremovable slips in position and shows the record upon the bound sheet of the complete transaction.

Fig. 2 is an end view of two of the removablel slips and the bound sheet and shows the distribution of the copying carbon.

Fig. 3 shows the sales book with a portion of the retainer broken away and the body thereof turned back so as to clearly disclose the arrangement of the lines and columns on the inside surface of the cover whereon is entered the distribution of sales.

y Fig. 4c shows a plan view of 'the sales book wherein the detachable slips with copying carbon thereon are removably connected along one of their longer edges. i

Fig. 5 shows the sales slips arranged in blocks as distinguished from the layers of the former figures, each block being separate from the adjacent block.

The sales book comprising the detachable slips and non-detachable sheets has a cover 1 fastenedv by staples 2 for which may be substituted any equivalent binding. The inner surface 8 of the coveris suitably ruled for the entry thereon of `the various items under' the' headings which ferm the basis the. slips.

for the distribution of the business transactions. Firmly held in the cover l are one piece or integral sheets 4 each carrying upon its under surface copying carbon 5. Each sheet 4 is blank except for numerals designated 6 which are the same as those upon detachable slips used in connection with the transaction to be recorded upon an assigned portion of said sheet.

Adjacent to the sheet 4, that is above and beneath7 are the customers slip 7 and the merchants slip S which are arranged in two or more groups depending on the sit/.e of the book, and are rendered together' detachable from the sales book and separable from each other by perforations 9. In Fig. l is found sheet 4 which is broken away showing the printed subject matter upon the slip 8 to be the same as that upon slip 7. By the use of the carbon surfaces 5 and ll the writing upon the customers slip 7 is copied through to the underlying merchants slip 8, and thus the original writing of the merchant or his employee is made upon the outer slip 7 and a carbon copy is made upon the sheet 4 and the slip 8 in a well known and often practiced 'mannen As both slips and the sheet 4 bear the same numeral 6 each transaction is automatically numbered.

After the transaction has been completed by the entry of a single item or a number of items and the head of the slips hasbeen filled out the said slips are removed from the sales book and slip 7 is handed to the customer while. sli merchant to be dealt with later las desired7 such as for posting to the ledger if preferred rather than to post from the sheet 4 remaining in the cash book or day book. In the case of the presence of a slip printing cash .reg'sterthe detached slips 7 and 8 are prop- ,register which upon proper manipulation enters the amount thereof and the character of the transaction in said register and prints the same and vadditional information upon Should the transaction-be a crede it sale as distinguished from a cash sale, indication thereof is made upon the slips by the register. lVhen the amount involved in the transaction is to be charged to the account of the purchaser `the clerk prior to ,making o ut the entries on slip 7 refers to the creditle abovenoted and enters opposite the heading on the top of the slip call ing for the balance on the account the amount forwardedor the standing of the customers Vaccount prior to the present transaction. After entering all the items the clerk then totals the amount forwarded withthe amounts of the items involved in the present sale which total will -be the amount owing to date. lVhen slip 7 vis handed to the customer slip 8 is immediately 8 is retained by the transferred to the credit tile under the customers name.

Having printed the proper data on the slips by means of the cash register' and having placed the slip 8 in the credit file it is necessary for the clerk to enter upon the inner surface 3 of the cover l the various items of the transaction .so as to obtain the desired distribution of sales. The use of the inner surface S is clearly shown in Fig. 3.

A modified form of the sales book comprising the invention embodied in this application is shown in Fig. 4 wherein the slips 7 and 8 are detachably connected to the sales book upon one of their longer edges and are connected to each other by a perforated line along the other longer edge and are bound in said book ad-jacent to each other' instead of being Separated by the bound sheet 4. rl`he use of the modified form is substantially the same as that described above.

The arrangement of thesales slip and the sheet 4 is such that the inner surface 3 of the cover l for distributing the sales is laid out practically the same as in Fig. l except that the items for the distribution are dis posed along a short edge thereof'.

Another modified form of the invention is shown in Fig. 5 wherein the sheets 4 and the detachable slips 7 and 8 are bound in a block and numbered from top to bottom as distinguished from the foregoing forms of the invention wherein sheet 4 has been rew ferred to as an integral sheet. It is perfectly obvious that in the preceding description of this invention the sheet 4 might vary well have been divided into respective sheets rather than remaining intact as an integral sheet. However, in the present modification in connection with the arrangement of the bound sheet with the slips in a block it has been found desirable to separate the sheet as noted and here we find sheet 4 interposed between the slips 7 and 8. This arrangement is not a fixed oneas 7 and 8 might very well be adjacent each other with the proper distribution of copy carbon thereon so as to convey the record to each other and the sheet 4. In this form of the invention the inner' surface 3 of the cover l is narrow and while not shown ruled may or may not be used for keeping a record of the distribution of business. Each block, it will be noted, has printed upon the formed edge 14 thereof the number of the included sheets and a space for the date of the last sheet so that ready reference may be made thereto when the used sheets 4 have been set away as a permanent file.

In order to retain the blocks of slips and sheets and a flap l5 of the cover in the position shown in the right hand portion of Fig. 5, a tang lis attached tothe cover l and extends therefrom and over one et ge iz o llU

of the slip 7. The character of the tang 13 is such as to conline the sheets and slips and Hap l5 as compactly as possible and serves to prevent them from bulging and forming a package inconvenient to file and handle.

The extensions or flaps l5 in the several modications illustrated not only constitute covers for the books but also operate as supports for every portion of the slips and record sheets under which they are placed. When so used the flaps also serve as stopcards to prevent impressions from being made upon any of the slips or sheets that are below them.

l/Vhile the form of device herein shown and described is admirably adapted to fulfill the objects primarily stated, it is to be understood that it is not intended to confine the invention to the one form of embodiment herein disclosed, for it is susceptible of embodiment in various forms all coming Within the scope of the clams Which follow.

Vhat I claim is l. In a sales book, a plurality of groups of numbered sheets, a binder common to said groups, a separate cover for each of said groups, and means on the covers identifying the numbered slips enclosed thereby.

2. In a sales book, a plurality of separate groups of consecutively numbered sales slips, a plurality of non-detachable sheets common to all of said separate groups of sales slips, numbers on said sheets identifying the numbers employed in consecutively numbering the sales slips of each group, a binder common to said groups of sales slips and sheets, and a cover for said groups of sales slips and sheets.

8. In a sales book, the combination with a cover, of a plurality of separate sales slips arranged in independent groups and removably secured in alignment to the cover, each sales slip of each group comprising an original leaf and a larger duplicate leaf, connected together along one edge and folded so that the original leaf overlies the duplicate leaf, and a single record sheet permanently secured to the cover and common to a sales slip of each of the independent groups of slips.

t. In a sales book, the combination With a single binder or support, of a plurality of separate groups of consecutively numbered sheets, Which groups are arranged successively on the common binder, each group of sheets after the first bearing a series of numbers numerically following the series of numbers on the preceding group of sheets.

5. In a sales book, the combination with a single binder or support, of a plurality of separate groups of consecutively numbered sheets, which groups are arranged successively on the common binder, each Vgroup of sheets after the first bearing a series of numbers immediately follovving the series of numbers on the preceding group of sheets, a cover for each of the groups of sheets, and data on the cover to identify the numbers on the group of sheets enclosed by such cover.

In testimony whereof I afhx my signature.

RODNEY J. WOOD. 

